Because it was treated as a reading of historical texts. I haven’t personally looked up if those historical texts are legit but it’s funny to think that historians would disregard lesbian relations by saying they were just friends/roommates
It wasn’t just lesbian relationships. Pretty much any gay/lesbian relationship when written about by historians calls them roommates or very close friends or some bullshit like that
That’s it. That’s really all there is. And yet whenever you see posts about women in love there’s always a reference to this one 5 second video. It’s also never in the stories about people’s uncles having a “friend” who lives with them in a one bed flat in the Castro, it’s only ever a wlw thing.
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I still can’t fathom how that one vine got universally accepted as code for lesbians.
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Because it was treated as a reading of historical texts. I haven’t personally looked up if those historical texts are legit but it’s funny to think that historians would disregard lesbian relations by saying they were just friends/roommates
KermitLeFrog@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It wasn’t just lesbian relationships. Pretty much any gay/lesbian relationship when written about by historians calls them roommates or very close friends or some bullshit like that
SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I had only seen it in the context of lesbian relationships till now (multiple times, not just a couple of times), and didn’t want to assume.
TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 10 months ago
it wasnt due to a vine
Akasazh@feddit.nl 10 months ago
What vine are you taking about?
-someone not universal
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 10 months ago
youtu.be/S0iM3bkkpbI
That’s it. That’s really all there is. And yet whenever you see posts about women in love there’s always a reference to this one 5 second video. It’s also never in the stories about people’s uncles having a “friend” who lives with them in a one bed flat in the Castro, it’s only ever a wlw thing.
AA5B@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Way pre-dated vine